Great- now it’s an even bigger waste of money.
Tell me again how we can’t “afford” to put in mass transit all over this metro when we’re blowing billions on a bridge that we’re not even sure we need.
Don’t need it? Wait, where’s all the I-75 traffic going?
The data from Strong Towns has said it doesn’t support needing a new bridge. Moreover, we have crappy public transit that could take many cars off the road if it was even moderately invested in but we seem to never have the funds for that. Odd that.
That doesn’t address the fact that transit isn’t receiving investment, that conversion takes time, and that transit will need to be additionally met at both ends to be truly effective - and that’s simply ignoring the fact that interstate traffic exists on an interstate highway.
I’m not saying that your ideal solution is wrong. We just need a way to get there.
My point is that it seems at every level of government there is the thinking that roads should and will always get whatever is demanded for them. The converse being that transit requires 10 studies a decade apart and public votes to even think of doing anything.
We’ll never get any kind of meaningful progress so long as roads require about 5% at best of the diligence and due process that transit has to undergo.
I understand the point of it crossing state lines but I have to wonder- how is that not a blocking thing here? KY as opposed to tolls and whatever as they are has agreed to do whatever for this bridge anyhow. Why not the same thought on transit? Moreover, Ohio could put on their big boy pants and fund a proper Ohio side transit system for the Metro and then KY would be begging to be included in it (ie. funding it on their side of the river) especially as it would mean that fewer people would go to KY as it would be disconnected except by car.
I agree on all of that. We need to fast-track fast transit and put cars in the slow lane. It should be clear that wrecking eveything in the meantime will not win over the public.